Towards a language/action theoretic approach to relationship analysis

Relationship analysis aims at supporting the eliciting and documenting of potential relationship structures of an application domain by providing analysts with a systematic technique. Current relationship analysis methodologies, however, are mainly semantic based and do not take the pragmatic and social dimensions of relationships into account. We propose an approach that is guided by Habermas’ thoughts on the pragmatic aspects of language and communication, especially the validity claims and different world concepts. We further describe how the different world concepts as domains of reality can provide the orientation to generate brainstorming questions during an analysis process. Keywords Relationship analysis, systems analysis, requirements analysis, Habermas, language/action theory, hypertext, speech-act

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: ECIS
• Authors: Fahri Yetim, Michael P. Bieber
• Keywords: ECIS 2003, Information Technology, Potential Relationship Structures, Relationship Analysis, Relationship Analysis Methodologies